We visited Montgomery Blair High School in a small town musically called Silver Spring. We stepped onthe soil of Maryland. All the states have their own flags, nicknames, mottos, and branches of power. Every state has willingly agreed to share common currency, advocate common foreign policy, and unite in issues of national security (though state police are hired and the sheriff is elected locally). Washinton DC's motto is Justice to all. Maryland's motto is much more sophisticated: Latin Fatti maschii parole femine could be translated as "manly deeds, womanly words" (Male Shovinist Pigs may like it) or, more elegantly, "strong deeds, gentle words".
There we met a Russian-American girl Samantha Gogol Lynn, who claims to be related to the great Russian writer Nickolai Gogol.
They have a "finger tips rule" for girls there. If you, girls, wear a skirt and you put your arm down and you fail to touch the edge of the skirt with your finger tips because it is shorter, you are sent out of class, girls. Hm.. I think it's a good rule, especially in summer time, when some girls wear microskirts and forget to change on the way from a beach to college.
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I know about the fingertip rule for clothes. I thought that was just a KY thing.:-) We were not allowed to wear shorts at my high school until the rules got changed in 1992 for my school to let girls wear shorts. At first it started where you could not wear shorts above your knee. Then it changed to two inches above your knee. Then again changed to the fingertip rule. The girls with short arms loved the rule and the girls with long arms hated it. I was just lucky to get out of the house with shorts on since my mom was never one who liked us wearing shorts to school. That is funny that you came across this at one of your places you traveled. I did not know other schools did this and especially did not know they still enforce this rule with all the different styles of clothing these days.
Hope you are having a great trip. Take care and be safe.
Janet, Patrick, Talitha and Karis
Patrick, Janet, thanks for the comment! According to Ch. Darwin, we all descended from apes. Some people - with shorter arms - have distant relatives among apes, and thers - with longer arms - have close relatives among them. It's all understandable and forgiveable. Just imagine what might happen if they started applying the fingertip rule to wearing jeans!
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